When I came to Master Liu Yu's small shroud shop again, it was the same as last time, it was still the old iron door, I knocked on the door, and when I heard the people inside say please come in, I slowly pushed the door open and went in. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info When I arrived, Liu Yu had already arrived, and in addition to him, there was another man, I guess he should be the person Liu Yu said to help his master take care of the shop - Brother Peng.

The layout here is almost the same as the last time we came, there are all kinds of shrouds hanging on the walls on both sides, and there are two long rows of shelves below, Liu Yu told me that Brother Peng's mother is sick and wants to go back to his hometown to see, just in a small county town around Harbin, these two nights, I can sleep in the store, which is where Brother Peng usually lives, otherwise I am still worried about accommodation.

This Brother Peng, although sitting there, can still see the burly figure, shaved a neat little flat head, with a thick beard on the chin and connected to his hair, although it is winter, but he is still wearing a T-shirt with half sleeves, it can be seen that the fire of his body is strong, and his left forearm that leaks out is full of patterns, and his appearance looks very fierce. I stood there stunned, at a loss, Brother Peng said, "Brother, sit!" I've got freshly brewed tea here, come and drink some and keep warm. I agreed to sit across from his desk. He poured me a cup of tea and continued: "Brother, you are Xiaoyu's classmate, and you have done something with Master Mo, we will all be our own family members in the future, you're welcome!" "Master Mo? Only then did I know that Liu Yu's master's surname was Mo.

When eating lunch, Brother Peng told us some precautions for taking care of the store, I think, in fact, it is mainly for me, Liu Yu should have known all this, but he said that the most important thing is to be incense in the morning and evening, before opening the door in the morning to welcome customers, and after closing the door at night, the door is allowed to close after ten o'clock, but the door is closed just not to receive the living, the trade of the dead, most of them come in the middle of the night, this morning and evening two incense, is to the Buddha statue facing the door, Brother Peng said that this is very important must not fall. He also told us to do business for the living to make money, and for the dead to accumulate yin virtue. I listened and nodded, taking everything he said to heart, and it was very new to me at the time, I had never dealt with ghosts so formally, and I was still a little looking forward to it. Another special feature of this shop is that all the ghosts can be seen by the living as long as they enter this room, because of the thing placed on the door frame of the door, which is a clay statue, a man sitting cross-legged on a futon, his hands clasped on his knees, his head slightly lowered, his eyes covered with strips of cloth, and a red dot on his forehead, which is facing forward, like a red eye. Liu Yu told me that there is a spiritual body of a monk in this one, and where to put it, where the ghost will appear, and he also told me that this is called the statue of Zun Ni has a name - Mu Yu.

Sent away Brother Peng, Liu Yu and I went back to the store again, he told me that Brother Peng may have to go back to his hometown for a while, I am not comfortable living here with him, first stay with me for a few days, fortunately, Brother Peng's bed is a double bed, I have always slept more honestly, and the two of us are not fat, it should not be too crowded, but after thinking about it, on the day I met Mei at school, the two of us slept in the small bed in the dormitory.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening, we followed Brother Peng's instructions to incense the Buddha statue at the door, and just closed the door, Liu Yu glanced at me and said, "Someone is coming." "I pricked up my ears, and I didn't hear any footsteps. At this time, sure enough, an old man walked in, he was neatly dressed, and his style was also very exquisite, looking no different from a living person, I knew that because of the eyes on the door frame, Liu Yu could also see him.

The old man entered the door and asked, "Shop, there are shrouds for sale here!" "The hoarseness of the voice is like phlegm stuck in the throat, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Liu Yu didn't speak, raised his hand and pointed to the opposite wall, the old man looked in the direction of his finger, looked at it for a while and didn't buy it, and left, after he left, Liu Yu told me that he was not a ghost, but a person who still had a breath, because the store is across the road from a hospital, people generally have a loose soul and body when they are about to die, and often when they fall asleep in the middle of the night, the soul will come out and wander around, go to some places that they have been nostalgic for before, or go to the shroud shop to show themselves the clothes, When I woke up, I thought it was a dream.

And this old man should have come to show himself the clothes in advance, and told his children to buy them.

But who knows that this old man has been here for four or five days in a row, these days Liu Yu and I have only bought some small pieces such as paper money ingots during the day, and every time it is just after closing the door, the old man came, and on the fifth day, I discussed with Liu Yu and waited for him to come again, I must ask, why I came to see every day these days, but left without buying anything, and did not see his relatives to buy it for him during the day. In the evening, he really came to see the shroud again, and as soon as he came in, Liu Yu asked, "Old man, you have been here for several days, but you don't like it?" ”

The old man shook his head and told us in a roaring voice that his name was Xu Weiguo, he was an old Red Army, he lived in the hospital opposite, he had throat cancer, he only had a godson, he didn't want to trouble him, so he had to come and see the clothes by himself, after saying that, he sighed, and turned around and left in frustration!

Early the next morning, I decided to go with Liu Yu to see this old gentleman, Liu Yu disagreed at first, he told me that there are too many such people, if you have to take care of each one, it would be strange if you didn't die of exhaustion! But I still dragged him to the opposite hospital, we found him according to his name, through the glass I saw the old man half-leaning on the bed, it was the old man who came every day for the past few days, we pushed the door in, this is a single ward, the old man saw us come in, very surprised, still roared and said: "I, I have dreamed of you, you are not ...... Have I really been there? He spoke more hard than he had when he was a soul, and he spoke in just one sentence for nearly a minute...... With trembling hands, he took out a small note from the drawer of the bedside table next to the bed, with a phone number written on it, and he handed me the small note and asked me to call this person to see him.

I dialed the phone, the man heard that Mr. Xu was hospitalized, he seemed very anxious, and he hurried in less than half an hour, it was a little old man in his fifties, his gray sideburns showed the traces of time, the old man saw him coming, he was very excited, we knew that this person was his godson, the man complained: "Dad, you are so sick, why did you tell me!" After speaking, he put his hand on the old man's knee and cried, and the old man raised his hand and touched his head, silent.

The old man took another piece of paper out of the drawer and handed it to him, and I saw that it was a will, and then he said, "Son, go with these two little brothers and buy me clothes...... I'm tired and want to take a break. ”

On the way, the man told us that the old man actually had a son and two daughters, and they didn't interact much on weekdays. The old man is the old Red Army, has fought many vigorous battles, and later retired, the country's welfare and retirement salary together add a lot every month, the children know that the father is rich, every time they buy a house and buy a car, they come to see the old man, usually when there is nothing to do, let alone come to the door, even the phone is not available, the old man has a hard life, his wife died when he was in his forties, and he has been pulling a few children by himself for forty or fifty years, for them to study and marry, for their sons and daughters, and continue to provide for their grandchildren......

He finished buying the shroud in the store and left, and my heart felt like a stone had been put down, because someone had finally helped the old man take care of the end.

Another day passed, I still wanted to go to see Mr. Xu, Liu Yu said that he wouldn't go with me, so I had to go and see it myself, but as soon as I arrived at the door of the ward, I heard a noise inside, and a woman scolded in an extremely sharp and high-pitched voice: "What are you!" You are an outsider! Why did my dad give you all the money and not tell us when he was hospitalized! What kind of thing are you, you were living on the streets, if it weren't for my dad taking pity on you and picking you up, you would have starved to death and froze to death, and now you are still here to fight for the inheritance? When I heard this, I stood at the door and looked into the ward, the old man's body was no longer there, only one soul stood by the bed in a daze, two women sat on the bed with Erlang's legs crossed, and two men stood opposite, one of them was the godson of the old man who came yesterday, he held a piece of paper in his hand, stood there with trembling hands, and finally spoke: "I don't want any money for me, but the part of the money that Dad said to donate must be donated as he said!" The woman stood up at once, crossed her waist and said in her true colors: "You can donate if you say donate?" Why didn't my dad have our share of the money, so he gave you an outsider! ”

The old man's soul saw me coming, floated out, and explained all this to me, those people are his biological children, they were not filial piety during their lifetime, he prepared to donate part of the inheritance to the state, and the rest of them were all given to his godson, after his death, the godson felt that the funeral still had to be told to the old man's children, but who knew that as soon as they came, they heard that the inheritance did not have their share, so they were anxious, and they had to take some money to give up, but the honest godson could not compete with them, and decided not to want to, Distribute the money to them, but they still refuse to give up, they are not allowed to donate to the country, the old man hopes that I can help his godson say a few words, but this is really embarrassing for me, it is difficult for the Qing official to cut off family affairs, not to mention this kind of inheritance contention, I remembered the last time I helped Xiaohan and Han in the last military training, but these children are not fuel-efficient lamps at a glance, I rejected the old man, last time I played a son for someone, this time I want to push the door in and open my mouth to say that I am your father, and I have not been beaten out.

I went back to the store and told Liu Yu what I had just encountered, Liu Yu was very supportive of me, he told me that not everything can be helped, and it is a good thing to help others, but you must also do what you can! But now I really regret it, if I had gone in to help Mr. Xu's godson say a few words, things might have been different.